Plate from “Beiträge zur Geburtskunde und Gynaekologie…”
We’re pleased to announce that the Medical Heritage Library collection on the Internet Archive has topped 40,000 items. As of this writing, we are, in fact, over 43,000!
Recently, we’ve added our first audio-visual items, courtesy of the Wellcome Films collection and the University of California, San Francisco, Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. These items allow our users to get a new perspective on topics like the history of anesthesia and tobacco control and legislation in the United States, all within the comfortable scope of our IA site.
In our textual collection, we have unique items like the 1502 Liber Hysagoge Joannici, an early Latin medical text gathering together Galen, Hippocrates, and others and Charles Guiteau’s The truth, and the removal, the autobiographical account of the assassin of American president James A. Garfield. We have Walter Murray Gibson’s Sanitary Instructions for Hawaiians in English and Hawaiian, 19th century studies in obesity in Foods for the Fat, and the University of Edinburgh’s History of Medicine: Syllabus and Specimen Extracts.
In a different vein, we also offer The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century by Raphael, who offers readers “The Master Key of Futurity,” and The Fountain: With Jets of New Meanings, by Andrew Jackson Davis, written in obedience to “a friendly voice.” There’s also The Wilderness Cure, by Marc Cook, extolling the healthful wonders of the American countryside and Harriet Martineau’s Life in the Sick-Room.
We are very pleased to be able to offer this collection of historical texts for use by researchers, scholars, and interested readers all over the world.
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!